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This book is a bibliophile facsimile edition of a 16th-century manuscript containing the odes composed by Tomasz Treter in honour of the life and works of Cardinal Stanislaus Hosius (1504 -1579), a distinguished prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in Counter-Reformation times. In 1588 Treter supplemented his poems with a set of 100 copper engravings depicting the virtues of the venerable Hosius. In this edition both text and engravings are reproduced on the basis of a unique copy of the original printed work which has happily survived to our times. The book's original contents have been augmented by a modern Polish translation of a selection of the poems, and an epilogue (in a Polish and Latin version) by Tadeusz Ulewicz. In 1998, on the eve of the sixth centenary of the renewal of its foundation, the Jagiellonian University of Cracow dedicated this volume to Pope John Paul II, as a tribute to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Holy Father's pontificate.
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